Lorraine Ali

Radiohead's fourth album, 'Kid A,' does its best to disassociate itself from a pop music world that's gone terribly wrong.

Scott Weiland, of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, is dead at 48. We interviewed the late rocker in 2004.

Twenty years after their breakout album, the band stars in a great rock doc.

The singer's metamorphosis is complete, with a new sound, a new role as Winnie Mandela, a new body, and a new love for life.

The 35-year-old formerly known as William Adams Jr. is now more ubiquitous than UGG boots and Red Bull combined. His next stop: the Super Bowl.

Amid the deluge of holiday music that comes in November and December, Mariah Carey's "Merry Christmas II You" and Susan Boyle's "The Gift" are poised to make all those other seasonal crooners sound like off-key carolers.

Ke$ha's music has been called 'repulsive, obnoxious, and ridiculously catchy.' She'll take that as a compliment, thank you very much.

Life was hard for the Arab world's best-known metal heads. Then they came to America.

In 2007, Forbes named Abu Dhabi the wealthiest city in the world, and like nouveaux riches everywhere, it has gone on a bit of a spending spree. Local branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums are under construction. They'll join the Abu Dhabi Poetry Academy and the Arab Heritage Village, with exhibits on life in the Gulf centuries before the mall with the ski slope moved into the neighborhood. And then there's Zaha Hadid's swooping design for the five-theater Performing Arts Center, which...

Yusuf Islam ditched music, fame and his name: Cat Stevens. Now he's emerging from his moon shadow.

Arts and culture in the Bush era.

It's an old story—parents split and fight for custody. But when both are women, and one says she is no longer gay, it gets complicated.

Jett Williams never met her father, Hank. Then she came across his lost recordings, and she heard him laugh at last.

Marsalis and Nelson are an odd musical couple, but they make the sweetest blues you've ever heard.

Parents should think twice before pushing their children toward the altar. According to "Marriage: The Good, the Bad and the Greedy," a paper published by the American Sociological Association, married people are significantly less likely than the unmarried to visit their parents and siblings. Only 60 percent surveyed admitted contacting their parents in the past month, as compared with 80 percent of never-married respondents.Only 30 percent said they'd socialized with friends in the same...

Why Dunkin' Donuts shouldn't have caved in the controversy over Rachael Ray's 'kaffiyeh' scarf.

Hillsdale High shows why small schools make a big difference.

American Muslims wait to see if the pope will reach out to them.

Thousands of largely invisible American women have given birth to other people's babies. Many are married to men in the military.

The growing threat that your good name will be unfairly besmirched online has given rise to a new industry: Internet reputation repair. Companies like ReputationHawk and Reputation Defender aim to push offending material down a few search pages, where most users won't see it. They do it by creating multiple links to positive data about you, crowding out the negative, for $4,000 to $30,000. For clients not yet tarnished, they recommend creating a "preemptive wall" of positive online content, to...

Justin Fatica yells, threatens and humiliates teens into finding Jesus. You got a problem with that?

The film adaptation of 'The Kite Runner' is a model of cross-cultural collaboration.

'The Kite Runner': A film adaptation so intent on authenticity, the book's characters now speak in Dari.

He sings. He dances. He's in a new movie. Why an 18-year-old kid may be pop music's last great hope.

Some women laugh about turkey basters replacing Mr. Right. The ongoing debate over going it alone.

My 4-year-old is asking for apple juice, all we have is margarita mix and I have two deadlines and 400 e-mails to attend to before I can make it to the market. As for my husband? I believe Raj hasn't seen the inside of a grocery store since he worked at one back in high school. Stocking the fridge is my task, as well as getting our son to school, scheduling his speech-therapy appointments, making dinner … I wouldn't mind if raising our child was my sole job, but it's not. My husband and I...

Jenna Bush makes the case for safe sex in her new book about an HIV-positive mother in Latin America.

The girl who wears her clothes inside out, the boy who loves plumbing. What parents and experts say about the children who just don't fit in.

Q & A: SlashEx-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash is back with a new album by his group Velvet Revolver. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Lorraine Ali. Do you still get asked about what's happening with Guns N' Roses? I get that a lot, like I'm supposed to have some finger on the pulse of what's going on with Guns N' Roses when I haven't had that for a good 10 years. Do people expect you to act a certain way? From time to time. People have some sort of mental fantasy—like expecting me to be...

They're bungling ballads in Kazakhstan, mauling Bollywood favorites in India and shout-singing Beyoncé numbers in Bolivia. Most every country—even those that lack running water and free elections—has its own version of "American Idol." This is not necessarily a bad thing. The very American idea that anyone can be a star has helped break down rigid class barriers in several countries. In places where the concept of democracy is still shaky, "Idol" lets viewers have the vote—last year...